Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

Amos 4

6 "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and t lack of bread in all your places,
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

7 "I also v withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
w I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
 8 so two or three cities x would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

9 y "I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees z the locust devoured;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

10 "I sent among you a pestilence a after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and b carried away your horses, 1
and c I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

11 "I overthrew some of you,
d as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were e as a brand 2 plucked out of the burning;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

12 "Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"

13 For behold, f he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
and g declares to man what is his thought,
h who makes the morning darkness,
and i treads on the heights of the earth -
j the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:57
    Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
    Lamentations 2:12
    They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:7
    I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 3:3
    Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
    Joel 2:23
    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 9:26
    Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
  5. Cross References
    Amos 8:12
    They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
  6. Cross References
    Amos 4:6
    I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:22
    The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
  8. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
  9. Cross References
    Amos 4:6
    I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:27
    The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egyp...
    Deuteronomy 28:60
    And he will bring upon you again all the diseas...
    Exodus 12:29
    At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstb...
    Psalms 78:50
    He made a path for his anger; he did not spare ...
    Isaiah 10:24
    Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O m...
    Isaiah 10:26
    And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a...
  11. Cross References
    2 Kings 13:7
    For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
  12. Cross References
    Joel 2:20
    I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.
  13. Cross References
    Amos 4:6
    I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
  15. Cross References
    Zechariah 3:2
    And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?
    Jude 1:23
    Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
  16. Cross References
    Amos 4:6
    I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 102:25
    Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
  18. Cross References
    Psalms 139:2
    You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
  19. Cross References
    Amos 5:8
    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
    Amos 8:9
    And on that day," declares the Lord God, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
  20. Cross References
    Isaiah 58:14
    Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
    Micah 1:3
    For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
  21. Cross References
    Amos 3:13
    Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord God, the God of hosts.
    Amos 5:8
    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
    Amos 9:6
    Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth - the Lord is his name.
    Jeremiah 10:16
    Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.
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